Integrated approach for emergency medical service location and assignment problem

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1882, 2004, Pages 184-192

  Yang, Saini ^a   Hamedi, Masoud ^a   Haghani, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; FLEET OPERATIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE (EMS) SYSTEM; FLEET ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM; OPERATING COSTS; REAL-TIME TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 14044274221     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1882-22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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